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Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?

47 points breezk0 | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

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I think it is very rude to just install to any "default" directory and not asks the user where he wants it to be installed.

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diffeomorphism ◴[31 Oct 25 15:02 UTC] No.45772742[source]▶
Weird windows centric view.

There shouldn't even be a question where to put things much less a "wherever you want". Instead you want a sane, sensible standard.

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1. gruez ◴[31 Oct 25 15:26 UTC] No.45773110[source]▶
You mean how on linux "make install" just installs to whatever directory (/usr/bin/, /usr/local/bin/, /opt/?), and if you want to change it you have to do ./configure --prefix=whatever?